From PDines@compuserve.comTue Apr 29 11:13:01 1997 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:52:08 -0400 From: Patricia Dines To: Patricia Dines <73652.1202@compuserve.com> Subject: Malaria, mosquitos, alternative to pesticides, India For your info - always nice to get GOOD news!! Patricia Dines --- FORWARD --- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:51:40 -0400 From: Will Bason [Ecopsychology list] Subject: Re: new weapon against malaria ----------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:18:04 -0400 From: Mark Graffis Subject: NEW ASSAULT ON MALARIA LEAD BY GUPPY FISH Copyright © 1997 Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI (April 18, 1997 08:55 a.m. EDT) - India has netted a new ally to combat malaria -- the guppy fish, the Asian Age daily reported Friday. Quoting the head of the country's Malaria Research Center, it said that fish which eat mosquito larvae are being introduced into wells and water tanks. V.P. Sharma said the use of fish was part of efforts to move away from relying on insecticides. He said cases of malaria had been reduced 'dramatically' in parts of the southern state of Karnataka with the help of the guppy and other fish. 'Cases of malaria have dropped by 80 percent in 152 villages ... within one year of introducing the guppy fish in tanks and wells,' he said. Sharma added 190,000 guppy fish introduced in areas around the city of Bangalore had helped bring the disease under control there.